Mathematicians are usually considered as all-around geniuses who frantically scribble the equation on the blackboards. However, some of the brightest minds can suffer from mental disorders. By the virtue of this assignment, I have selected one the amazing and insightful movie "Beautiful Mind" directed by Ron Howard on a brilliant yet asocial mathematical master-mind John Nash. I have picked the character of scientist Nash and applied various psychological theories in order to explain various intervention settings. This movies is actually based on brain disorder that influence how an individual observe, thinks, behaves and comprehends things. Basically, movie creates a timeline of major milestones in life of the protagonist John Nash. By analyzing the critical scenes from the movie, one can get strong insights into the life-long struggles that someone with mental disorder or disability like that of Schizophrenia can go through. John Nash played by phenomenal actor Russell Crowe was awarded the prestigious Carnegie award for research and contribution in mathematics. As the curtains of the movie open, we see that John joins the Princeton University and excited to comprehend the different aspects of mathematics in action. In his hostel, he was initially given a separate room and John was happy to have the room to itself. However, he was surprised to find that he will be accompanied by another fellow-mate Charles. John belonging to Mathematics and Charles being a literature student became good friends.
According to NIMH, mental disorder schizophrenia is a chronic disorder that can impact how individual can feel, behave, think and perceive thing. It can also pose people to comprehend things which are out of reality (National Institute of Mental Health). Applying psychological theories, we can observe that there are five type of symptoms of schizophrenia like hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, and disoriented behavior. Symptoms of schizophrenia varies dramatically individual to individual in terms of severity as well as pattern. For instance, John Nash often used to speak in confusing ways and believed others are trying to because they harm. Like he mentioned his wife, that he is been constantly watched by Russian. Essentially, John Nash suffers from paranoid Schizophrenia. Applying George...